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Question 77 of 128
Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.
Official answers
- High taxes
- Taxation without representation
- British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering)
- They did not have self-government
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
- Stamp Act
- Sugar Act
- Townshend Acts
- Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
Good to know: No taxation without representation: the colonists had no vote in the Parliament that taxed them.